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Yo, Jeff! Amazon needs to offer Kindle book samples via widgets that people can put on their Web sites

March 30, 2009 | 3:51 am

Posted in: Amazon, kindle, Kindle for iPhone

By David Rothman

"Crazy that Amazon doesn’t offer a widget for ‘Send a sample to your Kindle.’ That ‘s the first thing I try to do when I read about a book." – Liza Daly.

The TeleRead take: I totally agree, Liza!

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Mark Ruthman says:

March 30, 2009 at 8:31 am

Impelsys’ iPublishCentral has a great example of this — http://www.ipublishcentral.com/
Katherine says:

March 30, 2009 at 10:44 am

In other Kindle-related news, Josh Marshall of Talkingpointsmemo.com has a great post on the Kindle: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/03/until_quite_recently_id_seen.php

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Yo, Jeff! Amazon needs to offer Kindle book samples via widgets that people can put on their Web sites

March 30, 2009 | 3:51 am

By David Rothman

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